Michael Cousins Acting Managing Editor

Hello from the News Letter

In the news today:

* Two new adverts which will go out post watershed tonight show how paramilitary gangs in Northern Ireland use illegal money lending to control and exploit vulnerable people.

* Digital advertising screens objecting to the rollout of so-called vaccine passports have attracted criticism in Northern Ireland.

* Voters in the Republic would overwhelmingly reject the changes likely to be necessary to entice erstwhile unionists into a single unified state, a new poll has found.

* A declaration has been signed at hundreds of locations across Northern Ireland urging Boris Johnson to listen to unionist opposition to the Brexit Protocol. 

* Big Interview: Carl Frampton recommends the best chippy in Belfast and says modern music won’t age well.

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